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| Beijing Alumni Celebrate Chinese New Year!To mark the Chinese New Year a “2008 Chinese New Year Party of All British Returned Students/Scholars” was held on 2nd Feb. 2008 in the Hall of the Beijing People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.
The party was hosted by Chinese Western Returned Scholars Asssociation (WRSA), and co-organised by several British university alumni associations including those of Oxford, Cambridge, ImperialCollege, London, Manchester and last, but by no means least, the Nottingham University Alumni Association of Beijing (NAAB). For this event NAAB played a particuarly key role in organising the official invitations, external relations and the on-site party programme.
More than 200 members of WRSA attended the party where the guests of honour were Mr. Han Qide (pictured above middle with Zhan Bo Wang), the Vice Chairman of the Standing Commitee of the National People's Congress and Madam Zhang Suwo, the former Vice Chair of the National Commitee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Business School Alumnus and Chairman of the Nottingham Alumni Association Beijing, Zhan Bo Wang, briefed Mr Qide about the work and achievements of NAAB.
A number of senior staff from The British Council, the China Ministry of Education, and the ChinaScienceAcademy also attended the party. Key representatives from these organisations participated in a 'Top Talk' dicusssion when hot topics such as UK-China education exchanges, 30 years of China's Open Door Policy, and the roles and activies of returned scholars and students were debated.
T Table-tennis Olympic and world champion, Deng was a particularly special guest. Not only is Ms. Deng a senior official on both the Olympic International Committee and the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee but she is also a former student of the University of Nottingham! During the evening Mr. Han Qide bravely invited Ms. Deng to a ‘friendly’ game of table tennis. All who attended agreed that the event had been a great success and a very positive start to the Year of the Rat!
For further information about the activities of the Nottingham Alumni Association of Beijing (NAAB) please contact Zhangbo Wang
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